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Allison Squires, PhD, RN
NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing - Associate Professor & Deputy Director, International Education
NYU Langone School of Medicine - Research Associate Professor
Education
PhD, Global Health & Nursing Policy, Yale University
MS, Nursing, Education Specialty, Duquesne University
BS, Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
Global health , Health workforce capacity building, Health services research, Immigrant health, Migration and health, Language and translation in research
BIO
Allison Squires studies health workforce capacity building, primarily in low and middle income countries. Recent studies and collaborations have focused on primary care workforce development and obesity management strategies, interprofessional education in geriatrics, health workforce migration policy in Latin America, and projects promoting evidence-based practice among front line healthcare providers. To date, her research has occurred in 30 countries. She is a health labor markets consultant for the World Bank and a Fellow with the Migration Policy Institute. She recently received an R01 from AHRQ to study the impact of language concordant encounters between patients and nurses in home care.
Publications

Recent

Gerchow L, Lanier Y, Fayard AL, Squires A (2024).
A comprehensive view of adolescent sexual health and family planning from the perspective of Black and Hispanic adolescent mothers in New York City
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 6, 100460. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2024.100460.

Gerchow L, Lanier Y, Fayard AL, Squires A (2024).
Cocreating First Steps, a toolkit to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health services: Qualitative human-centered design study with Hispanic and Black adolescent mothers in New York City
JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 7, e60692. doi: 10.2196/60692. PMCID: PMC11615555.

Miner DC, Ailey SH, Thompson RA, Squires A, Adarlo A, Brown H (2024).
“We have met the enemy and it is us”: Healthcare professionals as the barrier to health equity for people with intellectual and developmental disability
Research in Nursing and Health, 47 (3), 269-273. doi: 10.1002/nur.22376..

Sliwinski K, Squires AP (2024).
Limited English proficiency is an overlooked research demographic
American Journal of Nursing, 124 (6), 8. doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0001023892.43938.b4.

Squires A, Engel P, Ma C, Miner SM, Feldman PH, McDonald MV, Jones SA (2023).
Continuity of care versus language concordance as an intervention to reduce hospital readmissions from home health care
Medical Care, 61 (9), 605-610. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001884. PMCID: PMC10421624.

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